Dr Emily Michelson
Senior Lecturer
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 462881
- edm21@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- Room 7
- Location
- Mediaeval History, 65 South Street
- Office hours
- Friday 12am to 1pm (MO1007), Thursday 11am to 12pm (MO3044), by appointment (MO4903)
Teaching
I enjoy teaching on all of my research topics topics as well as on the intellectual, social and artistic traditions of Renaissance Italy. I welcome inquiries from students interested all aspects in the Renaissance, the Reformation in Catholic regions, or the social and cultural history of Italy. I currently teach on the first-year survey MO1007, and offer honours courses on Renaissance Venice, Early Modern Rome, Renaissance Italy, and a special subject: Blood, Glory, Judgment: Early Modern Catholicism.
Research areas
I am a cultural and religious historian of early modern Italy. Most of my research coalesces around two fundamental questions:
- How did early modern people balance their private beliefs with public actions?
- How did close contact affect the way different religious groups interacted and imagined each other?
These questions have inspired all of my research, in various ways. My first book (The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy, Harvard UP 2013), applied these questions to Catholic preachers in Italy as they reacted to the pressures of the Protestant Reformation. My current project (funded by a British Academy mid-career grant and an AHRC early-career fellowship), Imaginary Jews in Early Modern Rome, uncovers the history forced public sermons to Jews and sees them as an important tool of Catholic reform. I have also co-edited one volume of essays in honor of Prof. Carlos Eire, and a second, more recently, on the varieties of religious minorities in early modern Rome. I am increasingly interested in how the act of walking changes the way we think, and particularly in interfaith encounters that took place outdoors and on foot in the early modern world.
Selected publications
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Conversionary preaching and the Jews in early modern Rome
Michelson, E., 23 May 2017, In : Past & Present. 235, 1, p. 68-104Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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How to write a conversionary sermon: Rhetorical influences and religious identity
Michelson, E. D., 2016, Religious orders and religious identity formation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ca. 1420-1620: Discourses and Strategies of Observance and Pastoral Engagement. Roest, B. & Uphoff, J. (eds.). Brill, p. 235-251Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter
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Beyond the Public Sphere: Opinions, Publics, Spaces in Early Modern Europe.
Michelson, E., Jun 2014, In : American Historical Review. 119, 3, p. 967-969 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Book/Film/Article review
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Evangelista Marcellino: One Preacher, Two Congregations
Michelson, E. D., 2013, In : Archivio Italiano per la storia della pietà. 25, p. 185 202 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy
Michelson, E. D., 2013, Harvard University Press.Research output: Book/Report ? Book
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A Linking of Heaven and Earth: Studies in Religious and Cultural History in honor of Carlos M.N. Eire
Michelson, E. D., Taylor, S. K. & Venables, M. N., 2012, Aldershot: Ashgate.Research output: Book/Report ? Book
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An Italian explains the English Reformation (with God?s help)
Michelson, E. D., 2012, From Icons to Eternity : Studies in Religious and Cultural History in honor of Carlos M.N. Eire. Michelson, E., Taylor, S. K. & Venables, M. N. (eds.). Aldershot: Ashgate, p. 33 48 p. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter
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Luigi Lippomano, His Vicars, and the Reform of Verona from the Pulpit
Michelson, E. D., Sep 2009, In : Church History. 78, 3, p. 584-605 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Preaching Scripture under Pressure in Tridentine Italy: A Case Study of Gabriele Fiamma
Michelson, E. D., 2006, The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in the Sixteenth Century: Dutch Review of Church History. Janse, W. & Pitkin, B. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, Vol. 85.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter
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Bernardino of Siena Visualizes the Name of God
Michelson, E. D., 2005, Speculum Sermonis. Donavin, G. (ed.). Brepols, (Disputatio).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter